KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 -- MIC deputy president Datuk Seri M. Saravanan has denied that his party has joined Perikatan Nasional (PN), directly refuting a claim made earlier by the coalition's secretary-general, Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan.

Saravanan insisted that MIC's central working committee (CWC) has not made any decision on the matter, Free Malaysia Today reported.

"No decision has been made by MIC to join PN. I've been very clear from day one: we will let the CWC decide, and the CWC has yet to decide anything," he said.

The Tapah MP clarified that MIC had not submitted a formal application to join the coalition, and had only made an "enquiry" about the process following an invitation from then-PN chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin...